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The actor, who has become Hollywood’s most bankable star, reprises a role he first played 19 years ago in the new movie ‘Glass’ out on Friday.
NEW YORK - Samuel L Jackson has told Eyewitness News the secret to his prolific career.
“I’m tireless,” he said.
The actor, who has become Hollywood’s most bankable star, reprises a role he first played 19 years ago in the new movie Glass out on Friday. The movie is an unconventional superhero film.
Jackson says that he always knew director M Night Shy...

Runner's World

“There’s nothing quite like it: after all the training you put in, running along the streets with the other runners, knowing all the hard work that they’ve put in and seeing everyone crushing their dreams. It’s an exceptional feeling,” says Nick Youngquest as he runs toward the finish line of the New York City Marathon.
Only it isn’t up yet. The bleachers for the spectator are starting to line the finishing stretch in Central Park, but the finish line is still being constructed when he was do...

Sunday Times, Johannesburg

From running marathons to running for political office, this comedian and actor is pushing forward to "do good and positive things", writes Nadia Neophytou
It was right around this time last year that Eddie Izzard set about doing the hardest thing he's ever done.
For someone whose life has been filled with hard things - the loss of his mother to cancer when he was five, coming out as a transvestite in his 20s, struggling with dyslexia - it was always going to be a feat among feats.
But when I...

Quartz

After three years running with a group in NYC—five marathons and thousands of miles in—I was summarily kicked out. It happened in one of the most 21st century ways possible. I was booted off the private collective our group leader had created in the running app Strava, after raising concerns about, among other things, his behavior toward women.
Even though I’d been unhappy in the group for a while, my exit was a sucker punch to the gut. I never had the chance to talk things over, to speak my ...

blackfilm.com

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The Dark Tower: 19 Hours in Stephen King’s Bangor, Maine
Ahead of the release of The Dark Tower, Stephen King surprised a cinema of fans in his town of Bangor, Maine, by introducing the film, and then taking a seat in the back of the theatre to watch it along with them. “I was about 8 miles from here when I started to write The Dark Tower” he said, wearing a cap with the city’s name emblazoned on it. “Bangor is home.”
Ki...

Quartz

Cannes, France
When a Kenyan director, with the help of a South African producer, turned a Ugandan short story into a feature film, the result led to a history-making movie. Rafiki, a coming-of-age story about two young women in Nairobi, became Kenya’s first ever film to make it into the Cannes Film Festival’s line-up. It also made headlines for being banned by the Kenyan Film Commission, which condemned the lesbian love at the center of the story.
But Rafiki also changed the game in another ...

Eyewitness News

Noah has driven taxis, sold CDs, and been a DJ, but says he's always wanted to write a book.
NEW YORK – Trevor Noah can now add the role of author to his CV.
The South African comedian, who hosts Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, has just released his debut book, called Born a Crime’.
Noah has driven taxis, sold CDs, and been a DJ, but says he's always wanted to write a book.
“I knew I didn’t want to write a memoir, it feels like you’re saying I’m done but I don’t feel I’ve even started.”
He s...

Runner's World

This week, Katy Perry announced she’d be performing for the first time ever in South Africa this July. The response from one fan best captured the mood of a country with its major tourist hub in the throes of a never-seen-before crisis: “Tell her to bring water as well.”
These sardonic cries for help turned out to be for naught. The singer won’t be Swish Swish-ing her way to drought-stricken Cape Town—usually a standard stop for touring artists. But while the promoters have declined to acknow...

The Sunday Times

Eyewitness News

Newton stars in the new Han Solo movie, titled 'Solo', which is currently on circuit.
NEW YORK - Thandie Newton has told Eyewitness News she’s proud to be the first dark-skinned woman to be featured in a Star Wars movie, but says it should have happened before by now.
Newton stars in the new Han Solo movie, titled Solo, which is currently on circuit.
The actress says she’s frustrated it’s taken so long for diversity in character casting has taken so long in the Star Wars universe.
“It’s 2018....

okayafrica.com

"It doesn't matter where in the world you are, we all kind of fall in love in the same way."
When the credits rolled and the lights came up at the end of her film's premiere in the Palais des Festival, director Wanuri Kahiu stood next to her lead actresses Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva, all dressed in off-white outfits, taking in the acclaim of a standing ovation. Someone in the audience shouted, 'Thank you!' and Kahiu put her hand over her heart. Festival director Thierry Fremaux moti...